Natural Language Processing with Python, Paperback

An introduction to natural language processing with Python using spaCy, a leading Python natural language processing library.

Natural Language Processing with Python is an introduction to natural language processing (NLP), the task of converting human language into data that a computer can process. The book uses spaCy, a leading Python library for NLP, to guide readers through common NLP tasks related to generating and understanding human language with code. It addresses problems like understanding a user's intent, continuing a conversation with a human, and maintaining the state of a conversation. It also teaches you how to connect an NLP script to a messaging app, store user data in a database to fill in a form, and customize your own statistical models to improve text processing. This book will give you the foundation you need to build your own chatbots, ticket-ordering apps, text-condensing scripts, and more.

Yuli Vasiliev is a programmer, freelance author, and consultant currently specializing in open source development, Oracle database technologies, and more recently natural language processing (NLP).

Currently, he works as a consultant in the bot project Porphyry run by Igor Shabalin. The bot implements various NLP techniques used to give meaningful responses to user questions. The demonstration version of this bot can be accessed at @Porphyry_bot in Telegram